Create an iso image from the contents of a directory: mkisofs -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -l -J -f -T -r . > "../directory_dump_`basename $PWD`.iso" When run in a directory (say tmp) it will create a file called directory_dump_tmp.iso one directory higher, which will contain the contents of the tmp directory in it's root.
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